User blog comment:Sefiros2211/Dante's Age/@comment-72.218.90.59-20140429050614/@comment-26269901-20150502064341

DMC3 manga puts him on the cemetery very near the place they lived, he was fighting skeleton demons, without much success. Upon seeing the house in flames, he screamed out his brothers name, thought he had lost both him and their mother, and in rage defeated the demons and walked away.

Before DMC3 happened it was considered he was taken by Mundus as a child. With DMC3, he instead took upon wandering the country, looking for traces of Sparda and how to get his power.